Trading Manager

About Altruist Altruist is transforming the multi-trillion dollar wealth management industry by building an AI platform for wealth professionals. We partner with financial advisors nationwide, empowering them to grow, optimize time and resources, and deliver superior outcomes for their clients. We're looking for exceptional talent to help us achieve our mission of making financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to all. If you're passionate about challenging the status quo and want to do the most important work of your life, we'd love to meet you! But first, our values Kindness - Kindness doesn’t just equal niceness. We listen to understand. We embrace, and encourage healthy debate and diverse perspectives. We approach conflict openly, honestly, and respectfully. Brilliance - Humility is the skill we’re most proud of and possessing a growth mindset is always top of mind. We take ownership in everything we touch; regularly using our unique superpowers to reach a common goal as a team. We succeed and fail as one. Grit - When challenges arise, we stay laser focused on achieving our mission and finding a way forward, even when it’s hard. We are nimble and maintain a sense of urgency, swiftly adapting to change and overcoming obstacles. The opportunity Altruist's Trade Desk sits at the center of the advisor experience: every order, correction, and market event runs through it. As we launch Margin and Options and expand fixed income, we're hiring a Manager, Trading as a desk generalist to run daily workflows and the trade lifecycle across equities, options, and fixed income, while supporting Credit Risk functions. This role sits within the Trading & Brokerage Operations organization and reports to [reporting manager]. It is an individual contributor role, not a people leadership role: a functional manager seat one step up from the Senior Analyst level, with deeper ownership of daily workflows, escalations, and process quality. It is built for someone who aspires to lead and wants to earn that seat by mastering the function first. If you want breadth across asset classes and daily ownership of desk operations at a fast-growing custodian, with a clear path toward leadership, this role offers meaningful scope. What you’ll do As Manager, Trading, you will be accountable for the accuracy, timeliness, and reliability of daily desk operations across equities, options, and fixed income, and for supporting Credit Risk when accounts must be brought back into compliance. You will also contribute as a builder: embedded with Product and Engineering as trading capabilities are designed, tested, and launched. Equity & Options Desk Execution • Monitor daily order flow, routing, and executions across equities and options, resolving anomalies and escalating issues • Review orders and evaluate risk on trades that drop to review, approving, rejecting, or escalating per policy • Manage and work not held orders via algo strategies or RFQ • Serve as the desk's senior point of contact for advisor questions on orders, executions, and market events Fixed Income Order Flow • Work fixed income order flow, including treasuries, municipals, corporates, and brokered CDs, across dealers and electronic venues • Support advisor questions on bond availability, pricing, yield, and order status • Flag pricing and settlement exceptions on fixed income trades and drive them to resolution Credit Risk Support • Support Credit Risk by executing liquidations required to satisfy margin calls and debit obligations • Support Credit Risk in enforcing PDT, Good Faith, and Freeride restrictions on the desk • Field buying power and restriction questions from advisors and route risk decisions to Credit Risk Trade Lifecycle, Breaks & Corrections • Oversee trade break research and resolution, cancels and rebills, and trade error handling under firm policy • Maintain the trade error account process, including documentation, approval, and loss tracking • Ensure clean handoffs between the desk, clearing, and settlement workflows Regulatory & Control Responsibilities • Execute daily desk activity in compliance with applicable SEC, FINRA, MSRB, and exchange rules governing order handling and trading • Maintain documentation and exception evidence for desk workflows Build & Scale • Partner with Product and Engineering on trading feature buildouts across asset classes • Design desk workflows that scale with volume, reducing manual touches and embedding controls from day one • Identify where AI and automation can improve break triage, exception handling, and advisor response quality, and pilot those improvements What you bring We're looking for a trading professional who combines desk instincts with operational discipline, and who wants to grow into leadership. Experience & Expertise • 5+ years of experience on a trading desk, in trading operations, or in execution services at a broker-dealer or custodian • Hands-on experience with equity and options order handling, routing, and trade support • Exposure to fixed income order flow and bond market mechanics strongly preferred • Experience managing trade breaks, corrections, and error accounts • Working familiarity with margin mechanics, including calls, buying power, and liquidations Technical & Systems Familiarity • Experience with OMS and routing platforms such as Sterling or equivalent • Experience with clearing platforms such as FIS Phase 3 or equivalent • Understanding of RFQ platforms (e.g., RFQ Hub, Tradeweb, RFQE) • Exposure to fixed income venues and data tools (e.g., Tradeweb, MarketAxess, ICE Bonds, Bloomberg) a plus • Strong Excel skills; comfort working with large trade datasets and internal tooling Licensing • FINRA Series 7 and Series 63 required • Series 57 required, or must be obtained within 90 days of employment • Series 24 and Series 4, or willingness to obtain • Series 52, or willingness to obtain, given municipal order handling Skills & Mindset • High ownership mentality: you treat the desk's daily operations as yours to run and improve • Versatile generalist: comfortable moving between equities, options, fixed income, and risk support within the same day • Aspires to people leadership and demonstrates it now through mentoring, documentation, and raising the bar for others • Genuinely curious about AI: you actively experiment with AI tools to triage breaks, analyze execution quality, draft documentation, and automate repetitive work, and you want to help define how AI is used on the desk • Calm, decisive judgment during fast markets and high-severity events • Clear, confident communicator with advisors and internal partners • Comfortable building structure in ambiguity as products launch and scale What we bring Attracting and retaining top-tier talent is a priority. We are proud of the culture we’ve built and are cognizant of the ever-changing professional landscape. Our dynamic offering of perks and benefits are tailored for you to feel your best while doing your best. • Stunning, amenity-filled office spaces in Culver City, CA, San Francisco, CA, and Dallas, TX. Our offices are intentionally designed for comfort, collaboration, and productivity. • Competitive total compensation. • Premium healthcare, dental, and vision insurance plans (HMO and PPO). • 401k savings plan with a 4% match and immediate vesting. • 16 week paid parental leave after one year of employment. • Professional growth and development opportunities including an employee mobility program and an annual L&D budget allocation for each employee. • Company perks program (includes discounts on pet insurance, fitness, cell phone plans, and travel, etc.). • Financial guidance program (includes counseling on navigating debt, tracking personal spend, saving and planning goals, home-purchasing preparedness, etc.). • One month work from anywhere policy (with the exception of a few countries). Total compensation includes a competitive benefits package, along with a bonus program for eligible roles. For salaried positions, a salary offer will be determined by a number of factors including experience, skill level, internal pay equity, geographic location, and other relevant business considerations. We review all employee pay and compensation programs regularly to ensure fair, equitable, and competitive pay. At Altruist, we are committed to providing fair, equitable, and competitive compensation by leveraging market data to inform our pay bands. Base salaries will be reviewed at regular intervals throughout the year, typically in conjunction with performance review cycles. By evaluating compensation on a regular basis, we are able to reward high performance and ensure all employees have opportunities for growth. Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Altruist we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.